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...main reason for his popularity, however, is the power of the man. Sports phone-in hosts are a notoriously testy bunch, but Franklin is grumpier and more unpredictable than most. He's hung up on callers who root for teams he dislikes, banned others from the air, and played irritating ditties like the Cleveland Crusader fight song a half-dozen times a night...
...hell do you type up a manuscript in an ancient language that has never been written down and apparently has no symbols or alphabet?" Now Hill says she has been misunderstood: she did not write a complete Lakota version, but translated important concepts and phrases into Lakota, researched the root meaning of each Lakota term, then redid the English version...
...change the ballpoint to a fountain pen, erase a few facial lines and see him as a 25-year-old self-employed salesman, striding into a two-chair barber shop in some one-horse Minnesota town. "Keep up with the times," he would say, unpacking samples of Tiger Root and Pinaud's Lilac Vegetal. "Look to the future. Have a cigar...
When capitalism took root in the 18th century, religion exercised a strong influence within a rigid social structure. The principles of the new economic system coincided in large measure with those of religious faith. Free enterprise demanded sacrifice and delayed satisfaction in order to build savings as a source of investment funds. Limited consumption and hard work were required to create more capital and more consumption for the future. Self-denial and individual diligence in this life were signs of someone's virtue and even of salvation in the next life. Max Weber labeled this "the Protestant ethic...
...practical necessity to recruit seems extraordinary. After all, the admissions committee, Reardon and Bok, express strong pragmatic and philosophic reservations. So at the root of the matter is the importance of winning--or at least, staying competitive. Obviously, Harvard has made a decision to grapple with the has made a decision to grapple with the complexities and problems associated with recruiting, rather than risk slipping further down the Ivy athletic ladder...